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Liberal Arts Minors

GEVS – Environmental Studies

This minor provides students opportunities to analyze in depth global and regional environmental issues, their causes, and their potential solutions. It features an emphasis on sustainability and holistic thinking. In particular, a required 500-level seminar will serve as a capstone experience by helping students integrate knowledge from several disciplinary perspectives, including socio-cultural, historical, political, economic, ethical, scientific, and/or technological factors. Having completed the minor, students will possess a high level of environmental literacy, an important component of many professional fields within the sciences, engineering, law, journalism, and public affairs.

Required courses:
0508-570 Environmental Studies Seminar OR
0508-530 Seminar in Science, Technology and the Environment
(These courses can only be taken if the student has already taken at least two courses from the below list. Typically these courses would be the last in the minor sequence.)

Choose four of the following:
0508-443 Face of the Land
0508-460 Environment and Society
0508-463 Great Lakes I
0508-464 Great Lakes II (Prerequisite 0508-463)
0508-482 Energy and the Environment
0508-483 Environmental Values
0508-484 Environmental Policy
0508-487 Special Topics: Environmental Studies
0508-488 History of Ecology and Environmentalism
0508-489 History of the Environmental Sciences
0508-490 Biodiversity and Society
0508-491 Sustainable Communities
0508-500 Science, Technology & Society Classics
0509-453 Environmental Philosophy
0510-449 Sustainable Development
0511-481 Environmental Economics (Prerequisite 0511-211)
0511-484 Natural Resource Economics (Prerequisite 0511-211)
0515-449 Population and Society (Prerequisite 0510-210, 0515-210 or equivalent)